cornija
/kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/
The verdict
“cornija” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,026 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,026
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.
Corpus desk
Index PT-cornija · cornija · Portuguese
cornija · rank #68,026 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,026
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH correo
Nearest frequency peer: correo (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cornija”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- claim
claim
31,997 corpus weight
- consignação
consignação
31,981 corpus weight
- contorcer
contorcer
31,980 corpus weight
- contracenar
contracenar
31,979 corpus weight
- cornija
cornija
31,975 corpus weight
- correo
correo
31,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cornija” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cornija |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cornija” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cornija is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,026 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuɾ.ˈni.ʒɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.".
cornija doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cornija, spelled C-O-R-N-I-J-A.
Definition
- 1ornato saliente na parte superior de uma parede, porta, móvel, etc.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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